In 1861, the South Carolina State Legislature passed two Acts,
granting charters to the Charleston City Railway and to the Citizens
Line Railway of Charleston. From that year until 1913, South
Carolina chartered sixty-eight (68) more "Street Railways"
in twenty-two (22) different towns and cities. As shown below,
thirty-three (33) of these seventy (70) chartered Street Railways
never materialized and only nine (9) known towns / cities within
South Carolina actually had working systems, as described in
the links below. Click
Here for an alphabetical listing of all thirty-four (34)
known street railways that became operational in South Carolina.

The State of South Carolina also constructed several "Interurban
Railways" that were powered by electricity and operated
between two or more towns. These are the Augusta & Aiken
Railway, the Charleston-Isle of Palms Traction Company, and the
Piedmont & Northern Railway - all described in the regular
passenger and freight railroads of South Carolina. Click
Here to go to the regular passenger and freight railroads
of South Carolina.

The above are the street railways known to have
been chartered but never built, all based upon the South Carolina
legislative Acts from 1827 to 1922. This Author has not been
able to locate decent copies of the legislative Acts from 1923
through 2010. From other sources, such as the Electric Railway
Journal periodicals and books, such as Thomas Fetters' book entitled
"Palmetto Traction - Electric Railways of South Carolina"
(1978), the following known towns either chartered or publicly
announced plans to build street railways, but these never materialized:
Abbeville (1911), Camden (1911), Clemson College (1909), Goose
Creek (1907), Greenwood (1911), Newberry (1910), St. Matthews
(1908), Sumter (1905 & 1907), Union (1904), and Winnsboro
(1903).